Brianna Bao is an Investor & Head of Marketing at Simsan Ventures, an early-stage diversity venture capital fund that backs underrepresented founders and diverse teams developing frontier technologies and solving vital issues. At Simsan, Brianna is on the front line of deal sourcing and execution, data analytics, marketing, operations, partnerships as well as fundraising while running Simsan Community’s various programmes and podcasts. Her investment focus is on climate tech, AI & Robotics, femtech, medtech, neurotech, smart cities, createch, new materials, spacetech and quantum computing. She joined Simsan Ventures from its inception, bringing with her an MBA degree and experience with VC fund structuring and platform building from her time at a VC fund based in Lisbon, another tech hub in Southern Europe. Outside of the firm, Brianna is a mentor at Zinc VC‘s impact accelerator and Google for Startup Black Founders’ Fund. As an active member of Climate Mosaic and Women of Wearables, she advises underrepresented entrepreneurs and supports Climate Tech and Femtech communities. Brianna has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics & Physics, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (Now Randolph); an MA in Mathematics & Education from New York University and an MBA from Cass Business School (now Bayes). She also co-hosts University of Oxford’s Founders & Funders Webinar Series on “Investing in Underrepresented Founders”. Brianna was featured in Forbes in September 2022 as one of the UK investors supporting underrepresented founders.